Interfacing green synthesized flake like-ZnO with TiO2 for bilayer electron extraction in perovskite solar cells
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2020

To improve the performance of PSCs, it is essential to prevent the carrier recombination losses at the interfaces of the transparent metal oxide electrode/electron transport layer (ETL)/active absorber perovskite layer. This present work reports on the green synthesis approach used for the preparation of flake like-ZnO nanostructure (GF-ZnO NS), naturally extracted from the leaf of Albizia Amara, used as a reducing cum capping agent. Herein, we have introduced an n-type GF-ZnO NS material as an efficient electron transport interfacial layer (bi-ETL) at the ETL/perovskite junction in the fabricated perovskite solar cells (PSCs). The structure of the fabricated PSC device is as follows: glass/ITO/bi-ETL (c-TiO2/GF-ZnO NSs)/CH3NH3PbI3-xClx/spiro-MeOTAD/Au. A comparative study has also been carried out by deploying electron transport materials such as c-TiO2 and GF-ZnO NSs separately. From this, it has been found that the bi-ETL perovskite solar cell devices achieved a maximum power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 7.83% with an open-circuit voltage (VOC) of 0.728 V, a short circuit current density (JSC) of 20.46 mA cm-2 and a fill factor (FF) of 52.61% whereas, the c-TiO2, GF-ZnO NSs and the chemically reduced CR-ZnO ETL based devices achieved a PCE of 4.84%, 5.82% and 6.81%, respectively. The better performance obtained for the bi-ETL based devices is ascribed to the enhanced carrier extraction and the reduced recombination losses at the interface between the ETL and the active perovskite layer.

Författare

Selvakumar Pitchaiya

Coimbatore Institute of Technology

Høgskulen på Vestlandet (HVL)

Nandhakumar Eswaramoorthy

VIT University

Muthukumarasamy Natarajan

Coimbatore Institute of Technology

Agilan Santhanam

Coimbatore Institute of Technology

Venkatraman Madurai Ramakrishnan

Høgskulen på Vestlandet (HVL)

Coimbatore Institute of Technology

Vijayshankar Asokan

Chalmers, Kemi och kemiteknik, Energi och material

Pavithrakumar Palanichamy

Coimbatore Institute of Technology

Chalmers, Kemi och kemiteknik, Energi och material

Balraju Palanisamy

Coimbatore Institute of Technology

Ananthi Kalimuthu

Coimbatore Institute of Technology

Dhayalan Velauthapillai

Høgskulen på Vestlandet (HVL)

New Journal of Chemistry

1144-0546 (ISSN) 1369-9261 (eISSN)

Vol. 44 20 8422-8433

Ämneskategorier

Oorganisk kemi

Materialkemi

Den kondenserade materiens fysik

DOI

10.1039/d0nj01559h

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